THE CAT, 1980

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
1 December 2022
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© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency, 2022
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BRETT WHITELEY

(1939 - 1992)
THE CAT, 1980

offset lithograph

81.5 x 83.5 cm (image)
116.0 x 91.0 cm (sheet)

edition: 9th Artist’s Proof aside from an edition of 100

signed lower right: brett whiteley
numbered and inscribed with title lower left: A/P ‘9’ the cat in the sunlight

Estimate: 
$25,000 – $35,000
Sold for $68,727 (inc. BP) in Auction 72 - 1 December 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Beth Patrick, London, a gift from the artist
Private collection, London, a gift from the above in 2005

Exhibited

Probably: Brett Whiteley, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1981, cat. 8 (another example)
The Entire Collection of the Graphics of Brett Whiteley: 1961 – 1981, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1981, cat. 56 (another example, as ‘The Cat’)

Literature

Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: The Complete Graphics, 1961 – 1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, cat. 59, p. 42 (illus. another example)
Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961 – 1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, cat. 60, p. 67 (illus. another example)
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, vol. 5, p. 121 (illus.), cat. 105P (illus., another example), vol. 7, p. 829